Soccer Gaming FIFA 2005 Hands-On Preview

posted by johnny-
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Thanks alot champ. Also try find out for me if you can transfer someone from the "Rest of the World" section to your team. As I said I'm a die hard Panathinaikos supporter, I've love to have someone from that team play for me. Cheers!
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yeah but why?
the players are fake,ea rarely makes faces for them,plus panathinaikos must have a superior team to earn faces.

Originally posted by monumental
they said there was 20 leagues,there's only 19,whos 20?

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You again with the same, EA now says 18 leagues and there're 18.

Anyway....
1- AndrewC did you see if Argentina's national team is licensed or if at least they got a kit that looks like their actual one?
2- Can you trasnfer players during Career from Rest of World?

As far as regions go you can change regions. You get to choose "my team" at the start of FIFA 2005. So if you've chosen Inter as "my team" and begin in your career in England then if you're successful you may get an offer from Inter at the end of the season.

Originally posted by lil_kewell
Hey Andrew , i was just wondering if you could answer my question about the Champions league . In fifa 2004 , the qualifying for champions league was all wrong , and once u got there as well it was all messed up , for instance , i was chelsea and i was in the same group as man utd , Liverpool , and Arsenal . This was very unrealistic and i was wondering if EA have fixed up all the bugs in the Champions League .

Thankyou

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This has been fixed.

Originally posted by El Diablo Rojo
You again with the same, EA now says 18 leagues and there're 18.

Anyway....
1- AndrewC did you see if Argentina's national team is licensed or if at least they got a kit that looks like their actual one?
2- Can you trasnfer players during Career from Rest of World?

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1. No, didn't look. I'm pretty sure they'll have a kit that looks like the real one.

2. I'm not sure whether you can transfer players from rest of the world but you can't play as a rest of the world team in career mode. Sorry to not answer your question but that's as much as I know.

so you can't even change a player like Freddy Adu's ratings?? How can there be an explanation for this?? Why are they not allowing us to change their ratings?? And if I do create another player named Freddy Adu with updated ratings, will the announcers actually call him by his name in the game?? I've created players in other EA games, and unless his name is something like Johnson or Smith, they'll just call him by his number, which is horribly unrealistic.

For the PC you will easily be able to change the ratings. Chau Le is again creating a Creation Centre for the PC version which will be out not long after FIFA 2005 is released.

And also, answering an earlier question. You can't tranfer players from "rest of the world" clubs because it would mess up the career mode.

1. Does kicking with your weaker foot give any effect ?

2. Does players` height gave any advantages during air battles ?

3. Is there still a sweet spot or angle where you can always score a goal no matter what ?

Originally posted by Hans
1. Does kicking with your weaker foot give any effect ?

2. Does players` height gave any advantages during air battles ?

3. Is there still a sweet spot or angle where you can always score a goal no matter what ?

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If you've played the demo then you can figure this out for yourself. But if you haven't....

1. I haven't noticed a huge difference between stronger and weaker foots. It definitely is not as obvious like PES in this area.

2. I think strength plays more of a role in air battles but height might play a factor. The taller players generally are stronger so in the end it's pretty realistic who wins the headers with how the players are rated.

3. I haven't found one. Although the computer seem to have some spots where the score lots of goals from. Shooting thankfully is a lot more balanced than last year.

Originally posted by AndrewC
2. I'm not sure whether you can transfer players from rest of the world but you can't play as a rest of the world team in career mode. Sorry to not answer your question but that's as much as I know

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Anyway.
And the last:
1- Can you play the Career Mode with the Brazilian and/or the Mexican league? Or at least transfer players from them?

2- What are the leagues on each region?

After further investigation I found out that you can transfer players from rest of the world clubs.

El Diablo Rojo, sorry but I can't answer any of your questions. I would assume that you can play as any club in career mode which are included in a league.

Andrew, is there a limit to how many players you can create per team???

Oh and can we not even edit things like the colour of the player boots or accesories??

Thanks

Id liek to say it was a great review of the game, i cant wait for FIFA 2005

Can you be able to change the clubs you can play in the cup modes, like in FIFA 2004? and im assuming they are 8 human players like in previous ones

Thanx

carrer mode

Ok, so we will not be able to play career mode with 2 or more human players... that's sad!!!

Is there any chance that EA could release a patch to make possible for us to play season mode like in 2003??? I mean with all the competitions... league, cup and UEFA???

I think that career mode will be more fun to lonely players... but I play FIFA with my cusin for more than 7 years!!!

trini

Woah you can transfer players from Rest of World.
Once again i forgot to ask something before.
Did you check if you can select the captain? And if you do, can you select it after the game started, like in the team managment menu?

yes you can choose a captain but i'm not too sure if you can change after the game has started, you probably can though.

1. can we select number for transfered player?
2. we are not allow to start the game by top clubs? like MU, Arsenal, Real Madrid??

I still cant beleive EA took out the Ali Sami Yen stadium.

Is there the option to alter the game speed on PS2 and X-Box? I've got the PS2 demo and it feels a little too slow.

Great review by the way,

Mike.

is there any cinematics for injuries of substituitions

I forgot where I read it but I think there are cinematics for Substitutions .. as far as injuries I haven't read or heard anything on the matter so I can't say for sure. Hope there is but, makes stuff more realistic.

Can you toggle the First Touch option on and off?

I'm hoping u say no cos then I'll save money cos my boys can't even win in the demo on Amateur level. Apparently it's "Too Hard".